Western Sahara is around the same size as Arizona.

Arizona is approximately 294,312 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 90.38% the size of Arizona. Meanwhile, the population of Arizona is ~6.4 million people (5.7 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Arizona vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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